Lema Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2019 Milan, 9-14 April Fiera Milano Rho, Hall 7 Stand B15-C20

New stories. New designs. New encounters.

At the Salone del Mobile 2019 #lema home will be enlarging its range with new, intense creative stories confirming the dynamic hallmark of an increasingly international environment.

New stories, in tune with the discreet project approach of “made in Lema” #design, amaze us with their delicate style and evocative details, which are able to bring out a concept of luxury, whispered and never flaunted, a characteristic of the brand, known for its rigorous style and balanced aesthetic sense.

These new creative tales use a soft alchemy of forms and materials for homes with a unique carefree expression of their own, which invite you to share and relax. A summary of the two #lema souls; the industrial and the bespoke, both concentrating on the detail and quality that emphasises the value of its roots in manufacturing.

Fluid in their rhythms, the new proposals interpret Lema’s vocabulary of style, thanks to the contribution of various designers different? for style and method of #design, at times minimalist, at other times decorative, once more emphasising the company’s ability, unique in the world of furniture, to unite different approaches of assembling an articulated but ever consistent collection. Consolidated relationships live alongside new collaborations: Piero Lissoni, art director since 1994, David Lopez Quincoces, Chiara Andreatti, Gordon Guillaumier, Francesco Rota, together with Leonardo Dainelli and Andrea Mancuso, who are designing for #lema for the first time.

The 2019 novelties widen the #lema Casa collection consisting of padded furniture, seats, tables, complements as well as systems for the living area and bedrooms, which have always been Lema’s core business. Starting from modular systems, the company has been able to evolve over nearly 50 years, constructing a complete proposal, a contemporary lifestyle where #design enters on tiptoe, promoting a lifestyle that is far away from clamour and pretentiousness.

Notable among the new projects are the new LT40 living area system by David Lopez Quinconces and the OMBRA chair and dining chair by Pietro Lissoni, a refined expression of the balance of the designer and Lema’s industrial nature. Other novelties are the ELLA consolle, which in David Lopez Quincoces’ purity of style tells of Lema’s attention to detail; Leonardo Dainelli’s ALMA armchair, proposal with a more traditional stamp, a refined story of the brand’s sartorial soul. Gordon Guillaumier and Francesco Rota #design new intense interpretations thanks to a thorough knowledge of the brand: Guillaumier with the BABI chair and dining chair and the new elements of the JERMYN sofa; Francesco Rota with the WARP bed and the development of the NEIL, SNAP, WARP, YARD sofas, a segment where the company is achieving great success thanks also to the designer proposals that he has been signing for #lema since the launch of the Soft Collection in 2013 five upholstered collections

Lema’s new proposals at the 2019 #salonedelmobile.Milano:

LT40 - #design by David Lopez Quincoces: versatile in its aesthetics and function.

At the centre of Lema’s new ideas for 2019 is the LT40 daytime system designed by David Lopez Quincoces, the result of a long conceptual study and an attentive industrial development. A highly customisable articulated system of containers and wall elements designed in four possible configurations: free-standing, wall, suspended, panelling boiserie?. This last one presented in matt lacquer and the W Line wooden version, with three-dimensional ribbed graphics obtained by a complex hand-worked process.

These four families, mixed freely together, characterise the architecture together with a series of additional elements which complete the LT40 #design: double-faced containers, benches and elements designed to house multi-media apparatus; shelves and panelling with structural frames in aluminium, adjustable and designed for wall mounting; trays and tops in marble or stone; container boxes in wood or glass and built-in LED lamp systems.

The system is enhanced by the LT_FRAME containers, with a strong graphical and chromatic impact, in six predefined types of configuration. Six cornices in two-dimensional types enclose the “tesserae of a mosaic” made up of colour, wood and transparencies, framed in a perfect equilibrium of rigorous, subtle forms. Designed for hanging on the wall and supplemented by a discreet LED light which emphasises the internal perimeter.

The customisation of LT40 is reflected also in the wide range of finishes available for all the elements of the system: wood, lacquered, glasses, clays, natural and reconstructed marbles. The structure is in Grey velvet, an innovative ultra-matt material, velvety to the touch yet high-strength.

Finished full-height flanks complete the compositions and full-width tops which are 10mm thick. A “tailor-made dress” fitted perfectly and finished with its faces in thickness of 25 mm available in all the #lema finishes.

OMBRA by Piero Lissoni: bold lightness

The new chair and lounge chair OMBRA is poetic in its essentiality, and represents Lema’s quintessential discretion and the rigorous style of Piero Lissoni, the brand’s art director since 1994.

Method and form are at the base of this refined industrial project where the innate lightness reveals a strong personality. OMBRA is characterized by the rarefied finely drawn architecture: the lines that form the structure in black lacquered metal, which appears light yet is strong in its function and sustains the shell that harbours the seating and back. Formed by a printed sheet of rigid polypropylene, with a minimal depth, the shell is proposed in two versions: with a coating in black leather or entirely dressed in leather with a light padding. At the base of OMBRA, the profound research of forms and materials which is typical of Lema’s industrial approach and which has allowed the development of a chair able to join stylistic refinement with a balanced value for money.

ELLA by David Lopez Quincoces, minimalism with personality

Fine-tuning of materials, lines and pure volumes for the console ELLA by David Lopez Quincoces, a piece of furniture that has a calibrated balance at its soul. A new expression of the profound ability of synthesis that the designer David Lopez Quincoces has developed, which is united with his rigorous planning where at the heart is the functionality of the object that cultivates a character through the choice of materials and details. 

This #design is in perfect harmony with the other furnishing items designed by the Spanish designer for #lema. The concept of Ella is a traditional furnishing item, which develops a strong contemporary personality because of the contrast between the lightness of the structure in bronze metal that appears to be floating and the solidity of the drawer in heat-treated oak. A new passe-partout that can be purchased as a stand-alone piece or together with other elements, Ella can insert itself in every style and space thanks to her refined style. 

ALMA by Leonardo Dainelli: project care with a sartorial attitude

ALMA by Leonardo Dainelli has a strong decorative identity; it is an armchair with rich forms and a sophisticated, sartorial attitude. A contemporary interpretation of the 1940s style; where an enveloping shape joins a soft cushion for the seating and back, giving life to a new and elegant expression of Lema’s attitude to comfort. At the basis of the project is the #design culture between #lema and the designer, which respects and valorizes the craftsmanship, and is one of the main traits of the designer’s name. The strong charisma of ALMA can be found in the refined selection of upholstery, which can be in fabric or leather, whilst its vintage soul can be found in details such as the feet enriched by a fine plaque in brass. The soft coordinated footstool completes the project. 

MISTERY ROAD – #design by Leonardo Dainelli: classical rhythm and contemporary rigour

Leonardo Dainelli chooses volumes devoid of superstructure for a collection of containers, rigorously geometric micro-architectures, free from the superfluous: light wooden boxes, suspended on the metal base, created by a sophisticated industrial technique and with meticulous attention to aesthetics. Available in the bedside versions, with one or two drawers, and as chests of drawers, the MISTERY ROAD containers are enhanced in the refined combination of materials that gives liveliness to the austere forms: heat-treated oak with base and knobs in patinated bronze-varnished metal and in matt lacquers in the colours paper, sand, pepper, basalt, mud in combination with titanium-varnished metal.

MADDOX – #design by Leonardo Dainelli: pas de deux in wood and leather.

Leonardo Dainelli is freely inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines, where wooden boards and sails fit together to create entirely new combinations and various functionalities for a rigorous yet elegant #design.

The soul of MADDOX is the suggestive dialogue between wood and leather: an aerial bed with heat-treated oak-tinted ashwood and headboard sewn in structural light leather with double front cushioning covered in fabric or leather. Protagonist of the sleeping area, designed also for room-centre use, it is defined by its contemporary character, however it is able to keep the value of a profound memory in manufacture alive. 

BABI - #design by Gordon Guillaumier: innate elegance of forms and comfort

Calibrated #design for a welcoming, versatile seat. Moderate in size but strong, the BABI dining chair and small padded easy chair are a proposal not subject to fashion, but of innate class.

The back and arms are designed in an equilibrium of shapes with upholstery available in fabric or leather.

In a single material, it features legs in wood, covered with a removable fabric or with leather; available also in heat-treated oak-tinted ashwood.

OCULUS – #design by Andrea Mancuso: narrative reflections

Poetic language based on the light sense of irony and surprise of Andrea Mancuso characterises OCULUS, a mirror that goes beyond its basic function. A sculptured object that amazes the viewer who is reflected in it. The enigmatic shape consists of a sphere section with a circular opening with the mirror nestling inside. The perception of its shape varies according to the viewpoint, creating a hypnotic play of reflections.

WARP - #design by Francesco Rota: sartorial softness

With a relaxed, informal style, a balanced designed constructed on generous shapes that describe distinctly horizontal lines, the WARP double bed finds its strength in the contrast with the refined vertical tailored seams that models the large padded bedhead, a stylistic element that takes up the #design of the WARP sofa. Also available in the container box version. A new refined example of manufacturing that perfectly unites the Italian craft tradition with the newest technologies able to give a profound sense of comfort. Covering available in fabric or leather. 

TAIKI – #design by Chiara Andreatti: contemporary past

TAIKI by Chiara Andreatti becomes a collection with the new two-seater sofa that takes its place alongside the easy chair presented last year. A reinterpretation of the classic forms in a contemporary version through the welcoming padding that invites you to relax. The detail of manufactured appearance of the seams gives an up-to-date spirit to the proposal, yet maintaining a clear reference to Lecorbusian lines and proportions, while the structure in heat-treated oak-tinted ashwood chooses a severity with an oriental spirit.

Modular systems for living and sleeping areas

The refined aspect characterising the furniture is also reflected in the systems collections where, daring in both form and style, great attention has been directed to the updating of the modular systems for the living area and the bedrooms.

It tells of the essence of #lema, a company strongly oriented to customisation. Its DNA has been inextricably linked, right from the start, with the production of made-to-measure systems, for both the living area and the bedrooms, with important first times: #lema was the first Italian company to develop a made-to-measure system with supporting sides, which has evolved over the years into the present Selecta, as well as the first made-to-measure modular programme of wardrobes. Modularity and personalisation have always represented the stylistic signature of #lema.

Industrialisation of the productive processes, paired with meticulous attention to detail, has also enabled the great development of the area dedicated to bedroom systems and therefore the birth of a programme able to allow the greatest versatility of the wardrobes, as with ARMADIO AL CENTIMETRO. An attentive research that has brought #lema to assert itself also in the segment of walk-in wardrobes.

Together with the brand-new LT40, SELECTA by Officinadesign #lema, book-case par #excellence, was the first product to combine the details of the manual work of wood with a series of technical innovations which to date make it one of the most multi-faceted from the point of view of composition, finishes and uses, giving it the appearance of a veritable sartorial concept that fully exploits the contemporary nature of the mechanisation of company processes. A programme in constant evolution in line with the most modern trends that brings the bookcase to the centre of home furnishing. 

ARMADIO AL CENTIMETRO: one wardrobe, infinite wardrobes

Since 1981, a unique sartorial programme of its kind, offering the maximum freedom of construction thanks to the wide range of modules available and to the possibility of adapting them according to the required dimensions, in height, width and depth. The technical part of the system is expressed in numerous aesthetic variations according to the door applied: in this way, with #lema the wardrobe in transformed into infinity of wardrobes, each with its own taste and its own refinement.

A programme in continuous evolution, result of a research and development as testimonied by the patented device #lema AIR CLEANING SYSTEM that for the first time ever guarantees to the wardrobe an active role in the sanitisation process of clothing and shoes. After a year of research and with a global exclusivity, #lema Air Cleaning System thanks to the interaction of the nanotechnology with a special UV lamp which generates a photocatalytic reaction to destroy with a natural active principle any bacteria, moulds or bad odours in the wardrobe, ensuring that the wardrobe is clear of these including its back and cutting back on 90% of bad odours which can be found in shoes and clothing in both fabric or leather. Unique and exclusive on the market, #lema Air Cleaning System, realised in collaboration with AIR CONTROL, adopts a technology patented PCOTM by Dust Free, Photocatalytic Oxidation. Technique developed for the sanitation of aerospace environments, where one of the main issues is that of guaranteeing the cleanliness and healthiness of the air, but is also used in hospitals, clinics and in the food industry. Without touching the aesthetic of the wardrobe, this system, available as an accessory, is placed on the top of the wardrobe of the Armadio al Centimetro line in both the coplanar and the hinged door varieties.

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